Hello all, I am proud to be reading as a part of two events in the Bay area this weekend. Each event has plenty of awesome Vietnamese American artists participating, not just me. Here is the info: Friday, April 27, California and Beyond: Vietnamese American Artists and Writers Symposium, Stanford University, Stanford Humanities Center, 424 St. Teresa St. Link here Saturday, April 28, 7pm Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network’s SF Vietnamese
Association for Asian American Studies Conference (AAAS)
April 9, 2012
Hello all, due to the hard work of many, many people, I’ll be attending AAAS this week in DC! Below is a schedule of things i’ll be mixed up in. Wednesday, April 11, 7 pm – Bao Phi and Ed Bok Lee at University of Maryland, Van Munching Hall 1524. Thursday, April 12 1:15 – 2:45 pm The Poetical is Political: A Creative Conversation on Asian American Organizing Chair: Juliana
January 23, 2012
There is a certain catalyzing style that comes of utter fearlessness, and the poet Bao Phi has cornered it with his debut poetry collection, Sông I Sing. Jane Y. Kim, Hyphen magazine Read the full review here.
Chúc mừng năm mới!
January 23, 2012
Chúc mừng năm mới, everyone – wishing you a powerful, beautiful Year of the Dragon. I’ve been honored with another wonderful review, from the good people at the Asian American magazine Hyphen. Read it here Also a good mention of the book at Publisher’s Weekly. Congrats to Coffee House Press! Here Thank you all for supporting the book – the sales number is ridiculous, and a wonderful surprise. Then, last
December 29, 2011
In this strong and angry work of what he calls refugeography, Bao Phi, who has been a performance poet since 1991, wrestles with immigration, class and race in America at sidewalk level… on this song of his very American self, every poem Mr. Phi writes rhymes with the truth. read the full New York Times review here. Dana Jennings, the New York Times
December 29, 2011
Bao Phi’s words are undeniably politically brave and brutally honest—a rarity of a voice much needed. Ly Vũ Hoàng, Pacific Reader Journal Review
Tribalism’s Return: Bao Phi’s SÔNG I SING review by Professor Greg Choy
December 19, 2011
George Uba reads the tribalism, in discursive Asian American poetry, as an ethnographic signifier of resistance to an oppressive and dominant culture, as anti-assimilationist, as privileging the oral over the written, and as more embracing of the polemic than the poetic—all descriptors that resonate through Bao Phi’s poetry… Professor Greg Choy, Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley Read the full review here.
All Good Peeps
December 19, 2011
I’ve been fortunate in that a lot of good people have been saying good things about my book. First off, a very talented fellow Vietnamese American artist and community organizer whom I have a lot of respect for, and whom I am lucky to call friend, Sahra Nguyen. Also Kevin Ost-Vollmers was kind enough to devote some space to an interview with me on his awesome blog, Land of a
CALL AND RESPONSE—A REVIEW OF BAO PHI’S ‘SÔNG I SING’
December 17, 2011
Bao Phi’s long-awaited debut collection Sông I Sing brings poetry back to the people like nothing else I’ve seen in Vietnamese American culture. Julie Thi Underhill Read the full review by Julie Thi Underhill here.
diaCRITICS: interview of Bao Phi by Kim-An Lieberman
December 17, 2011
Really cool interview at the Vietnamese arts, culture, and politics website diaCRITICS. Thanks to Kim-An Lieberman! diaCRITICS review will be posted on this site soon. If you have been lucky enough to attend one of Bao Phi’s dynamic spoken-word performances, then you know why his new book Sông I Sing, just released from Coffee House Press, belongs at the top of your must-read list. Slam champion, community activist, HBO Def